No Appointment Necessary

About No Appointment Necessary

This is the podcast clinic owners listen to when they’re done with gurus, funnels, blueprints, and templates pretending to be strategy. No hacks. No 'proven' 10X systems. This comes from HMDG. We have worked with more than 1,000 MSK clinics. We see the accounts, the utilisation rates, the failed ideas, the profitable ideas, and the reality behind the noise. We do not deal in theory. We deal in numbers. Most of the industry advice collapses the moment it hits real-world finances. You get the truth about how clinics actually grow. Why some print money while others burn out. What patient numbers mean once you stop pretending templates can fix capacity problems or that “mindset” builds a business. The idea that a clinic becomes successful because someone journalled harder is fantasy. We talk to people who have actually achieved something. Multi-site owners. True specialists. People with real P&Ls, not testimonial slides about a “life-changing £30k month”. We break down marketing, pricing, staffing, finance, AI, and operations without pretending there is a magic blueprint that saves everyone. There isn’t. The only thing that works is understanding the fundamentals and executing them properly. If you want comforting stories, find a guru. If you want the unfiltered reality of running a clinic, you’re in the right place.

Publisher

Michael Schumacher - HMDG

Category

business · business · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Dec 2025

Latest episode

30 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2026

   The Inside View Learnings From A Practice Manager

   Overview This episode takes a different angle. Instead of hearing from another clinic owner, Michael talks to someone who sees the business from the other side of the desk. Michael sits down with Anne-Kathrin Heuer, a practice manager who has worked in private physiotherapy clinics since 2020. They discuss what really happens behind the scenes, what patients say when the clinicians aren't listening, and why so many clinic owners struggle to let their managers actually manage. They start with ...

2. 

   23 Sept 2026

   How Do You Grow a Clinic When Nobody Knows Who You Are? The Power of Relationship Marketing

   Overview Part start-up story, part industry conversation, this episode looks at what it really takes to grow a clinic when nobody knows who you are yet. Michael sits down with Josh Newsom, founder of Ancoats Chiropractic, to talk about opening a clinic just a year after qualifying, building it from scratch, and learning very quickly that getting patients through the door takes more than simply being good clinically. They get into the changing face of chiropractic, why younger chiropractors ar...

3. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Jack Howard on Growing a Home Physio Business Without Losing Your Mind

   Overview Building a physio business sounds great until you realise you are now responsible for absolutely everything. In this episode, Michael sits down with Jack Howard, founder of Warwickshire Home Physio, to talk honestly about what it has taken to grow the business over the last five years. They go back to the early days of bad systems, a homemade website, very little structure and a lot of trial and error, before getting into what actually changed as the business grew. The conversation c...

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